Software Architectures, Components, and Applications

Researchers and professionals will find in this text the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the Third International Conference on the Quality of Software Architectures, QoSA 2007, held in Medford, MA, USA, in 2007. It was mounted in conjunction with the 10th International ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on Component-Based Software Engineering, CBSE 2007. The 13 revised full papers presented together with one keynote lecture were carefully reviewed and selected from 42 submissions.

Keynote.- Resource Architecture and Continuous Performance Engineering.- Long Papers.- Reusable Architectural Decision Models for Enterprise Application Development.- Using Planning Techniques to Assist Quality-Driven Architectural Design Exploration.- Tracing Architectural Decisions.- Customizing Traceability Links for the Unified Process.- Architecture Recovery and Evaluation Aiming at Program Understanding and Reuse.- Architecture Evaluation.- Factors Influencing Industrial Practices of Software Architecture Evaluation: An Empirical Investigation.- A Bayesian Model for Predicting Reliability of Software Systems at the Architectural Level.- Performance Prediction of Web Service Workflows.- Predicting the Performance of Component-Based Software Architectures with Different Usage Profiles.- Architecture Evolution.- Pre-emptive Adaptation Through Classical Control Theory.- Extending the Capabilities of Component Models for Embedded Systems.- Architecting Process and Architectural Knowledge.- Architectural Knowledge: Getting to the Core.- The Influence of CMMI on Establishing an Architecting Process.- The Architect's Mindset.